{"id":2017751,"date":"2023-08-31T05:35:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T09:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/meet-the-canadian-psychiatrist-msnbc-is-using-to-defend-school-shutdowns\/"},"modified":"2023-08-31T05:38:34","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T09:38:34","slug":"meet-the-canadian-psychiatrist-msnbc-is-using-to-defend-school-shutdowns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/meet-the-canadian-psychiatrist-msnbc-is-using-to-defend-school-shutdowns\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing the Canadian Psychiatrist MSNBC Relies on for School Shutdown Support"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmeet-the-canadian-psychiatrist-msnbc-is-using-to-defend-school-shutdowns%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2017751&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n<blockquote>\n<h2>Remote learning loss is &#8216;dangerous myth,&#8217; Mehdi Hasan says \u200cwith help from University of British Columbia&#8217;s\u200b Tyler Black<\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure><figcaption>(Grabien)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan is using a\u2063 Canadian psychiatrist and self-described video game expert to challenge the widely believed notion \u2063that pandemic-era school \u2063shutdowns led to learning loss in children. Education policy experts in \u2064the United States find this argument laughable.<\/p>\n<p>In an August 24 segment titled, &#8220;The\u200b shocking truth about kids, Covid, and school closures,&#8221; Hasan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-h5xyGdVfvo\">argued<\/a> that there is no evidence \u2063to support the claim that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/meet-the-canadian-psychiatrist-msnbc-is-using-to-defend-school-shutdowns\/\" title=\"Introducing the Canadian Psychiatrist MSNBC Relies on for School Shutdown Support\">school shutdowns negatively impacted academic \u2064performance<\/a>. Dr. Tyler Black,\u2064 a child psychiatrist at the University of British Columbia, is central to Hasan&#8217;s argument. Black, who specializes in &#8220;video games,&#8221; &#8220;media,&#8221; and &#8220;screen time,&#8221; provided <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tylerblack32\/status\/1682522244952788992\/photo\/1\">data<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tylerblack32\/status\/1682522248228515841\/photo\/1\">a few school districts<\/a> to support Hasan&#8217;s claim that remote schools sometimes performed\u200d better than in-person ones.<\/p>\n<p>However, experts in the United States criticize Black&#8217;s use of &#8220;cherry-picked&#8221; data and argue that more \u200ccomprehensive studies show that remote \u2062learning did indeed have a negative impact on students. Fordham Institute\u2062 president Michael Petrilli states, &#8220;The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/leftist-new-zealand-leader-vaccinated-can-engage-in-tinder-liaisons-up-to-25-people\/\" title=\"Leftist New Zealand Leader: Vaccinated Can Engage in Tinder 'Liaisons ... Up to 25' People\">overwhelming scientific consensus<\/a> is \u2064that\u2064 the degree of learning loss students experienced is strongly related to the amount of time they spent away from school.&#8221; Michael Hartney, \u2062a fellow \u200cat Stanford University&#8217;s Hoover Institution, bluntly criticizes Black, saying he should &#8220;stay in his lane.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hasan&#8217;s defense of virtual learning comes at a time when Democrats are facing criticism for their support of prolonged school shutdowns,\u200d especially\u2063 as reading and math scores in \u2063the United States reach historic lows. Hasan laments\u2064 that criticism of school closures is not just \u2062coming from Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>Hasan goes on to cite\u2064 figures from Black comparing test scores in California and Florida. However, experts argue that comparing numbers across different states fails to account for local variations in reopening\u200d efforts. Ohio\u200d State University education\u200d policy researcher Vladimir Kogan states,\u200b &#8220;If you look at that data within states, you see a very strong\u200d relationship between the length\u200d of school closures and academic decline. \u2063So to say that at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-votes-to-keep-china-from-buying-us-farmland\/\" title=\"Senate blocks China's purchase of US farmland.\">state \u200clevel<\/a> there&#8217;s\u2062 not a strong relationship [between school closures and learning loss] really is \u200bvery weak evidence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Black praised Hasan&#8217;s segment after its release but later announced that he was taking a Twitter break as the segment attracted mainstream criticism \u200bonline.<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time Hasan has relied on Black to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fauci-tries-to-rewrite-history-claims-he-didnt-recommend-locking-anything-down\/\" title=\"Fauci Tries to Rewrite History, Claims He \"Didn't Recommend Locking Anything Down\"\">defend school closures<\/a>. In 2022, Black appeared on Hasan&#8217;s show to \u2063argue that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/proposed-9-11-resolution-from-school-board-member-who-spoke-of-jihad-spends-1-paragraph-honoring-dead-americans-10-lamenting-muslim-discrimination\/\" title=\"Proposed 9\/11 Resolution From School Board Member Who Spoke Of Jihad Spends 1 Paragraph Honoring Dead Americans, 10 Lamenting Muslim Discrimination\">mental health impacts<\/a> of missing school are &#8220;likely negligible,&#8221; but\u200c failed to provide substantial data to support \u2062this claim.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>are challenging the notion that remote learning during the pandemic has caused significant learning loss in children. MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan is joined by Canadian psychiatrist Tyler Black, who is an expert in video games, to debunk this &#8220;dangerous myth.&#8221; Experts in education policy in the US are also questioning the impact of school closures on learning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2088,"featured_media":2017752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2017751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2017751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2088"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2017751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2017751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2017752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2017751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2017751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2017751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}